The action of the U.S. Navy in rounding up fishing boats operating along the Californian coast of Japanese ownership under dummy American registration, is not connected with recent incidents in China, but with the general question of the manner in which Japanese craft pre operating in the eastern waters of the Pacific Ocean. Recently Alaskan fishermen have Girected the attention of the American government to the manner in which Japanese fishers have been making inroads into the salmon fisheries upon which the U.S. government has spent much time and money in improving. The Japanese, acting quite correctly by fishing in non-territorial waters, have been doing, it is said, very considerable damage. So much so that the future of the industry is imperilled by a con-ion of present practices. Representations to Tokyo have up to now met with no very favourable response. The vessels against which the U.S. Navy is operating are in fact Japanese owned, but by reason of their dummy registration are enabled to fish in territorial waters ənd continue doing the damage which State on the morning of the 26th:—Siberian i-cyclone steady over Siberia, China, Korea and Japan. Low area or typhoon to the south of Yap. Fresh winter monsoon along the China Coast. Cloudy and fine, cold to cool weather in China, State on the morning of the 27th:—Cloudy and cold weather. North-north-westerly breezes. Pressure rather high and steady.
Probabilities, 4.30 p.m. yesterday:—Cloudy, rather fine and cold weather with morning mist and regular north-westerly to northerly winter monsoon around Shantung and over our Coasts. Cloudy to overcast with rather fresh northerly to northeasterly monsoon over the Eastern Sea end Formosa—Siccawei Observatory. is being done outside those limits. The majority of foreign owned ships under American registry are said to be Japanese, and the action of the authorities is designed to prevent practices which, if persisted in, will inevitably impoverish the fisheries. It is still hoped that on the major question the representations made to Tokyo will ultimately prove effective, though in this minor aspect of the problem the authorities are clearly dealing with people who have brought themselves within American jurisdiction by acquiring a fictitious American registration.
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